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Peter Coffin (artist)

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Peter Coffin
Born1972 (age 52–53)
Berkeley, California, US
AwardsSmithsonian Fellow
2009
Websitepetercoffinstudio.com

Peter Coffin (born 1972, Berkeley, California, United States) is an artist based in New York City.[1]

Peter Coffin, Untitled (Balloon Equilibrium), 2008, Austrian Cultural Forum

Education

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Coffin graduated from the University of California, Davis, where he received a B.A. and B.S. He studied under Conrad Atkinson and Lynn Hershman Leeson and connected with California funk artist Robert Arneson and conceptual artist Stephen J. Kaltenbach. He received an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000.[2]

Work

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In 2001 Coffin installed a greenhouse in Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY where musicians were invited to play music for plants,[3] highlighting the 1970s cultural phenomenon of research into plant consciousness. Similarly, Untitled (Play), 2008,[4] Untitled (Dreaming Seagull), 2006,[5] and Untitled (Prelapsarian), 2012,[6] encourage viewers to imagine consciousness outside of their own. Continuing this investigation, Coffin drew inspiration from Carl Jung's Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies,[7] to create a full-scale UFO[8] modeled after popular representations and documented sightings, and initially flew it over the Baltic Sea in 2008 while a team of sociologists interviewed witnesses. Subsequent flights include the southwest coast of Brazil in 2010 and the Mojave Desert in 2013. In a series of museum exhibitions (Untitled (Tate Britain),[9] Untitled (Pompidou)[10] and Untitled (Smithsonian Museum)),[11] a similarly playful approach was taken to interrogate art engagement by animating and changing the appearance of artworks through choreographed sound and video projection.

Exhibitions

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Coffin's work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[12] Washington D.C. (2012); the Center d'art Contemporarian,[13] Ivry (2010); The Barbican,[14] London (2009); City Hall Park,[15] New York City (2009); the Aspen Art Museum[16] (2009); the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art,[17] San Francisco (2009); Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg[18] (2008); Palais de Tokyo,[19] Paris (2007); and le Confort Moderne,[20] Poitier (2007). Coffin has had solo gallery exhibitions with National Exemplar,[21] NY; Baldwin Gallery,[22] Aspen; Venus Over Manhattan,[23] NY; Gallery Fonti,[24] Naples, Italy; Carl Kostyál Gallery,[25] London; Herald St,[26] London; Perrotin,[27] Paris; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; and Michael Benevento Gallery,[28] Los Angeles.

Untitled (Prelapsarian), 2012. Silicon rubber, hair, pigment, modeling materials and massage table. 24 x 75 x 36 inches

His work has been exhibited in exhibitions at the Singapore Art Museum;[29] Schirn Kunsthalle,[30] Frankfurt; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,[31] San Francisco (All 2014); The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA,[32] Los Angeles, CA; Storm King Art Center,[33] New Windsor, NY, (Both 2012); Boston Museum of Fine Arts,[34] Boston, MA; Yokohama Museum of Art,[35] Yokohama, Japan, Musée d'Art Contemporain,[36] Bordeaux, France; Le Musée Océanographique,[37] Villa Paloma in Monaco (All 2011); Israel Museum, Jerusalem,[38] Israel; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,[39] New York, NY (Both 2010), Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma (2009); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, Museum on the Seam,[40] Jerusalem, Tate Britain,[41] London, UK (All 2009), Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Barbican Art Gallery,[42] London, UK; Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain; Tate Modern,[43] London, England; Lenin Museum,[44] Moscow, Russia; le Confort Moderne, Poitier, France; Musée d´art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (All 2007); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst,[45] Zürich, Switzerland; Wanås Sculpture Park, Skåne, Sweden (Both 2006); PS1/MoMA,[46][47][48] NY, (2005, 2004 & 2001); South London Gallery, London, UK (2004).

Collections

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Work by the artist is represented in permanent collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art,[49] New York, NY; Storm King Art Center,[50] New Windsor, NY; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;[51] the Israel Museum,[52] Jerusalem; the French National Arts Council Collection;[53] the Hessel Museum of Art,[54] Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; the Berkeley Art Museum,[55] the University of California at Berkeley, California; the de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco;[56] the Museum of Contemporary Art of Haute-Vienne – Rochechouart,[57] France; the Yokohama Museum of Art,[58] Japan; and the Museo Jumex, Mexico City among others.

Curatorial

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Peter Coffin’s practice includes curated projects and exhibitions: ÉTATS (faites-le vous-même) / Grow Your Own, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, (2007) which subsequently traveled to Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, Spain; and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain, Deaf, at the Frank Elbaz Gallery in Paris (2007),[59] Color Wheel at Deitch Projects in NY (2008),[60] Imaginary Concerts V1[61] and V2,[62]

Peter Coffin, Untitled (Imaginary Concert), 2012. with Eileen Myles,

Untitled (Shepard Risset Glissando with Color), at the Getty Museum Auditorium, Los Angeles (2013). In 2005, Coffin published a Music for Plants compilation album with contributions from Arto Lindsay, Sun Burned Hand of the Man, Ariel Pink, Jutta Koether, Alan Licht & Tom Verlaine, David Grubbs, LoVid, Anthony Burdin, Liam Gillick, Z's Christian Marclay, and No Neck Blues Band among others.[63][64] Two subsequent volumes were compiled for future publishing. Coffin has also published Gallery Soundtracks and Music Interpreted by the Brain.[65] Recent projects include the curatorial platform SMMoCA (Sugarmill Museum of Contemporary Art)[66] and Another Alphabet.[67]

References

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  1. ^ "Acting To Pretend, Preteding To Act: Peter Coffin — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. February 1, 2009.
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  3. ^ "Untitled (Greenhouse) by Peter Coffin with a Performance by Jim O'Rourke". YouTube. 7 August 2024.
  4. ^ Coffin, Peter. "Untitled (Play)". Peter Coffin Studio.
  5. ^ "Untitled (Dreaming Seagull)". Peter Coffin Studio.
  6. ^ "More info — Peter Coffin Studio".
  7. ^ Jung, Carl (1979). Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691018225.
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  10. ^ https://petercoffinstudio.com/smithsonian-animation. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) |title= Untitled (Pompidou)
  11. ^ https://petercoffinstudio.com/smithsonian-animation. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) |title=Untitled (Smithsonian Museum)
  12. ^ "Peter Coffin: Here & There".
  13. ^ "LE CRÉDAC". LE CRÉDAC.
  14. ^ "Peter Coffin | Barbican". www.barbican.org.uk. 11 February 2009.
  15. ^ "Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)". Public Art Fund.
  16. ^ Oksenhorn, Stewart (22 July 2009). "For artist's Aspen project, it ain't just the blues". www.aspentimes.com.
  17. ^ https://wattis-archive.cca.edu/exhibitions/exhibition-formerly-known-passengers-28-peter-coffin. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ^ "Friart – Yellow Outline". Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg. 13 September 2008.
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  20. ^ "confort moderne". www.confort-moderne.fr.
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  22. ^ https://www.baldwingallery.com/archive/exhibitions/2015/coffin-mapplethorpe/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ^ "Peter Coffin - A, E, I, O, U - Exhibitions - Venus Over Manhattan". www.venusovermanhattan.com.
  24. ^ "PETER COFFIN – Hello headspace". Galleria Fonti (in Italian). 31 March 2016.
  25. ^ "The Prelapsarian – Carl Kostyál".
  26. ^ "Peter Coffin". Herald St.
  27. ^ "Peter COFFIN - Contemporary Art Exhibition". www.perrotin.com.
  28. ^ "Michael Benevento". beneventolosangeles.com.
  29. ^ "Still Moving: A Triple Bill On The Image | Singapore Art Museum;". www.singaporeartmuseum.sg.
  30. ^ "INFINITE JEST". SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT. 5 June 2014.
  31. ^ "Dissident Futures, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2013-14". abacus.bates.edu.
  32. ^ "Transmission LA: AV Club". www.moca.org.
  33. ^ "Storm King : Exhibition : Light & Landscape [EXH.116]". collections.stormking.org.
  34. ^ "Untitled (Designs for the Colby Poster Co., Museum of Fine Arts Boston Set)". collections.mfa.org.
  35. ^ Matsui, Midori (1 May 2011). "Yokohama Triennale 2011". Artforum.
  36. ^ "Dystopia | Capc". www.capc-bordeaux.fr.
  37. ^ "OCEANOMANIA". NMNM - Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.
  38. ^ "Still / Moving | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem". www.imj.org.il.
  39. ^ "Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum". The New Yorker.
  40. ^ "NatureNation". MUSEUM ON THE SEAM.
  41. ^ "Explore Altermodern | Tate". www.tate.org.uk.
  42. ^ https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2008/event/martian-museum-of-terrestrial-ar. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  43. ^ "Level 2 Gallery: Learn to Read | Tate Modern". Tate.
  44. ^ "2nd Moscow Biennale 2007 at Moscow Biennale Moscow - Artmap.com". artmap.com.
  45. ^ "While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body – an Exhibition about..." Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (in German).
  46. ^ "Greater New York 2005 | MoMA".
  47. ^ "Collection (Or, How I Spent a Year) | MoMA".
  48. ^ "B Hotel | MoMA".
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  50. ^ "Light & Landscape - Peter Coffin". stormking.org.
  51. ^ "Untitled (Designs for the Colby Poster Co., Museum of Fine Arts Boston Set)". collections.mfa.org.
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  53. ^ https://lesfrac.com/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  54. ^ "Exhibitions". CCS Bard.
  55. ^ "BAMPFA". bampfa.org.
  56. ^ https://www.famsf.org/visit/de-young. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  57. ^ https://musee-rochechouart.com/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  58. ^ "Yokohama Museum of Art / Collection Search / Untitled（COFFIN, Peter）". inventory.yokohama.art.museum.
  59. ^ https://www.re-title.com/exhibitions/archive_frankelbaz209.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) |title=Frank Elbaz: Deaf 2
  60. ^ https://petercoffinstudio.com/untitled-(color-wheel). {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) |title=Untitled (Color Wheel)
  61. ^ https://anthology.net/book/peter-coffins-imaginary-concerts/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) |title=Peter Coffin Imaginary Concerts
  62. ^ https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/47012/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) |title=Printed Matter Catolog
  63. ^ "Greater New York 2005". wps1.org. MoMA PS1. Archived from the original on 2007-07-01. Retrieved 2024-02-18. Music for Plants: Peter Coffin's Record Release Party
  64. ^ "Peter Coffin, Perfect If On, 2002". Greenmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  65. ^ "Music Interpreted by the Brain by Peter Coffin, Perfect If On, 2004". Discogs. 2004.
  66. ^ https://www.instagram.com/sugarmillmoca/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) |title=SMMoCA
  67. ^ https://www.instagram.com/another_alphabet/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) |title=Another Alphabet
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